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San Andrés Island (Colombia), Nov 20 (EFE) (CAMERA: Klarem Valoyes).- The devastating passage of Hurricane Iota through the Colombian archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina left thousands of people homeless waiting for help Government or evacuation to overcome the emergency.
Locals walk around fallen trees and broken houses as the coastline of Colombian Island San Andres looks to have taken a battering from the effects of Hurricane Iota that is making its way across Central America and has been downgraded to tropical storm. IMAGES
San Andrés (Colombia), Feb 15 (EFE).- (Camera: Ares Biescas) On the beaches of the island of San Andres, a Colombian paradise in the Caribbean, waves return plastic bottles, flip flops and single-use cups and cutlery to shore, covering the sand in the rubbish that has not been properly disposed of.FOOTAGE OF RUBBISH IN SAN ANDRÉS.SOUNDBITES AND TRANSLATIONS OF:Lizbeth Arigan, resident: "Around the trees, there's a lot of pollution. Pollution has taken over the vegetation."Rosaina Forbes, resident: "Kids have got sick because of pollution, they've had viruses with a fever, flu, vomit, diarrhoea. Kids and adults. A few months ago I had red spots on my skin, my skin was affected by pollution."Ana Raquel Mar, technical consultant at Schooner Night Ethnic Association: "It's a use project. We collect and transport solid residue that can be reused. In four months we have collected 40 tons. Of those 40 tons, we've sent 10 to Bogotá.""All this material we see here is ready to be taken on a ship to Cartagena."
Tree branches torn off, trucks stuck in the mud and flooding: images of damage on a road through the forest in San Quintin, near Puerto Vallarta, as Hurricane Roslyn hit the Pacific coast of the Mexican state of Nayarit, with winds reaching 195 km/h. IMAGES
Furious winds whip the coastline by the Montauk Point Light on the easternmost point of Long Island, as tropical storm Henri approaches. IMAGES
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